Re: [gettext] update .cvsignore files

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello Bruno,

On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 01:32:05PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> This autom4te.cache directory exists in the first place because m4 is slow
> through the m4sugar layer. Akim Demaille told me that the goal was to
> extend GNU m4 so that m4sugar would not be necessary any more.

perhaps.  But currently it also serves for tracing some macros to achive
interaction between autoconf and automake.  Without it, automake would have
to re-run autoconf.

No possibility that the cache will go anytime soon.

So please add autom4te.cache to .cvsignore files.

> > -stamp-h

gettext-tools/.cvsignore still misses stamp-h.

> I thought that Paul Eggert had submitted, years ago, a patch through which
> only a single stamp-h would be created, and no stamp-h1, stamp-h2 etc. any
> more. No?

I don't remember any such change, but it might have happened before I came
to autotools development.

But I know that historic versions of Automake use stamp-h instead of
stamp-h<num>.
Is it possible that you incorrectly remember this change?

I don't think one stamp-h would suffice, each header should have its own stamp:
---Makefile---
stamp-h1: $(srcdir)/config.h.in $(top_builddir)/config.status
        @rm -f stamp-h1
---Makefile---

If config.h.in is touched, config.h will be refreshed.
But there is no need to recompute other config headers.

Please add `stamp-h1' or `stamp-h[1-9]' to the .cvsignore files.

If you want to support ancient versions of Automake, use `stamp-h*' instead.

With kind regards,
        Stepan